Landis loses appeal

AP is reporting Landis lost his appeal.

No link yet.

 

big shock there

 

Go ahead and nuke this thread, too.

I was a couple seconds late on the trigger.

 

Here's a link, report says the vote was 2-1 against. He'll be out until February 2009.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=3029089

You started yours first Oggie. Your thread.

 

Wow, FOUR threads started around the same time on the same topic. d_bs for everyone!

 

I had to choose between this thread and one started by rok. It was a no-brainer.

 

Is that some sort of record?

 

Does anyone know how his book sales were? He's run up a huge bill In what is now a failed effort.

 

Then you should have posted on rok's

 

Well done, Meat.

 

Is this what finally closes the book on cycling in the U.S., or do riders like Levi Leipheimer manage to carry the sport forward.

I know Discovery is out now, is there any company in the U.S. that would think about forming a new team?

 

Slipstream will be the new U.S. team on the international tour. But they won't be fully accepted for another year. They've got a decent lineup already -- not G.C. contendor type stuff, but decent -- and will be strong in a year or two.

The sports -- because of greedy, cheating, selfish individuals and a few cutthroat cheating, greedy, selfish teams -- will be hurting on a global scale financially for a few years. but it will survive. It never has been and never will be a prominent sport. But eventually sponsors will hop back on after (hopefully) it stays clean for a time.